Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-04
 RDIT0RIAL NOTES.

Mayor Harrison of Chicago is quoted as saying that he has done with public life. This statement will seem too good to be true to many of the people of misruled Chi cago.
 The meeting in honor of the New York prison was significant affair. The speakers
 were particularly savage against the report
 CTS, and in this they showed correct under
 standing of the situation. The free press of
 this country is the deadly foe of anarchy. San Francisco is not very pious place.
 At recent meeting of the Congregational club there it was said that in that city of 300, 900 inhabitants the attendance at the Protestant churches was about 33,00O, and at the Catholic churches about IS, 000 mak- ing total church attendance of abont 50,- 900. Probably about three-fourths of the population never attend church.
 The people of Wisconsin think they have had trouble enough from ignorant foreigners who do not rightly appreciate this land of freedom. One of the first measures presented to the legislature this year was bill to abol- ish the board of immigration. It passed both
 houses without voice being raised in oppo- sition and has become law. Foreign im- migration, then, is not to be encouraged fur ther in Wisconsin. The change of sentiment is the more remarkable from the fact that the foreign born voters now outnumber the natives and have 6 number of representatives 1 in the legislature.
 Germans know how to do many things we'll, and they have successfully attacked the sparrow problem. In Germany long troughs are placed at the caves of houses for the &C., commodation of sparrows in building their l nests. When the young sparrows are matched l and the mother goes out to procure food for l them wire screens are placed over them, with l interstices large enough to permit the passage ! of food in to the younglings, but too small to 1 allow them t> escape from the nests. As
 soon as they have grown large and plump they are killed, and they make 8 very dssirs- l ble article of food.
 M Beclard has presented some interesting | facts to the Academical council of Paris in | regard to the number of female students in l the Faculty of Medicine in the university | there. He reports that since Germany closed 1 the doors of it's universities to women the | number in Paris has been constantly increas- l ing. At present the numbers of the various
 natlonalities are: Russians 83, English II, French ', Americans 3, Austrians 2, Ruma-
 nian and Turk 1. The greater number of these do not pursue their studies as far as the doctors degree. The large proportion of Russian ladies is due to the closing of the l female medical school recently founded at | St. Petersburg. M. Beclard thinks that the maximum, and will probably decline, since the preliminary studies of the faculty for both sexes have been made alike.
 The arbitration bill for the settlement of
 differences between railroad corporations and
 their employers that has passed both houses of congress and is now before the Presi-
 dentis not very stringent measure, though it may work we'll if it becomes law. It pro- | vides that when both parties agree to arbi-
 trate, the railroad company "is hereby au-
 thorized" to select one person and the en- ploye or employees another, and these two persons third, who are to constitute a
 board of arbitration. They are to have the
 power to subpoena witnesses, and compel
 them to testify about everything but the l ''secrets" or "records," or ttproceedings" of
 labor organizations. The arbitrators are to
 get $10 day, and the witnesses the ordin- ary fees paid in United States courts. The